Just looked up PEQ. The recommendation to put the sub where you sit than eq away will have you end up with a single spot...where you placed the sub, as the 'premium' seat.
If you go to the trouble...and man, what a hassle, of putting the sub in 3 or 4 spots, running the eq routine, recording the results THAN entering an average value at each frequency, you may get somewhere. But, overall, you've still got the same room you started with.
My suggestion was to take your budget....and I'll admit it has to be above a minimal value, and divide it between 2 lesser subs. In this way you can minimize room interactions.
The Harman White paper is clear on this point.
Also, for Pete's Sake! the Velodyne is 5000$ (gasp!) For that kind of loot you could get 3 or 4 top-line HSU's and associated cabling. HSU recommends a near-field sub.. maybe just behind your sofa or as an end table. The other pair could be located in other more discrete locations in the room.
I would maintain that a pair of good subs totaling 1/3 the Velodynes cost could easily equal the performance and output of the 'Dyne and have less complexity and therefore less to go wrong.
I think you misunderstood my measurements of subs line.
Measurements of subs, like frequency response and max spl are near-meaningless.
Measuring for location is more advantageous, but still a hassle. Room boundry situations make such measurements in the hands of most of us, me included, kind of dicey.
I would agree that 'Spending more money on a sub with measurements comparable to a less expensive one has zero advantage' So, for the person who is going to spend/budget say.....1500$ for a good sub, what would be wrong with a pair of lesser units for the same money?
Link to article:
http://www.harman.com/wp/pdf/multsubs.pdf
If you go to the trouble...and man, what a hassle, of putting the sub in 3 or 4 spots, running the eq routine, recording the results THAN entering an average value at each frequency, you may get somewhere. But, overall, you've still got the same room you started with.
My suggestion was to take your budget....and I'll admit it has to be above a minimal value, and divide it between 2 lesser subs. In this way you can minimize room interactions.
The Harman White paper is clear on this point.
Also, for Pete's Sake! the Velodyne is 5000$ (gasp!) For that kind of loot you could get 3 or 4 top-line HSU's and associated cabling. HSU recommends a near-field sub.. maybe just behind your sofa or as an end table. The other pair could be located in other more discrete locations in the room.
I would maintain that a pair of good subs totaling 1/3 the Velodynes cost could easily equal the performance and output of the 'Dyne and have less complexity and therefore less to go wrong.
I think you misunderstood my measurements of subs line.
Measurements of subs, like frequency response and max spl are near-meaningless.
Measuring for location is more advantageous, but still a hassle. Room boundry situations make such measurements in the hands of most of us, me included, kind of dicey.
I would agree that 'Spending more money on a sub with measurements comparable to a less expensive one has zero advantage' So, for the person who is going to spend/budget say.....1500$ for a good sub, what would be wrong with a pair of lesser units for the same money?
Link to article:
http://www.harman.com/wp/pdf/multsubs.pdf